Fedora
Fixing the Xorg X server after removing nouveau and nvidia and installing a nVidia graphics card.
2010/06/22
I updated my destop configuration recently, well thats not the news. But I was a idiot doing certain things at that time might be something interesting to my readers. I got a <a …
Enhance photos quickly with GIMP
2010/06/17
Okay today I will show you how to enhance or make the photo look better with GIMP. Digital photos are good but can be made better with GIMP. I will take you step by step with the process. There are …
Change pidgin status from the command line
2010/06/16
$ purple-remote "setstatus?status=away&message=AFK" Thanks for the comment oshazard, i wasn’t aware of purple-remote existence. […] <a …
wmctrl – window control manager
2010/06/16
What is <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/wmctrl" title="Wmctrl" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wmctrl">wmctrl? wmctrl is a command that …
Periodically download and use as wallpaper from Flickr in Fedora using Webilder.
2010/06/16
Ever wanted to have wallpaper downloaded from Flickr directly using the tags and then apply them as wallpaper, then the way to go is download Webilder <a …
17 Cool firefox tweaks.
2010/06/16
A very nice article on firefox can be found here. Though written for Ubuntu should be applicable to all distro’s. <a …
First Fedora 13 Features Listed: NFSv4, DisplayPort
2010/06/11
Fedora 12 will not see the light of day for a few more weeks still, but the first features for Fedora 13 are now known. On the Fedora Project Wiki is now the Fedora 13 feature list. Added so far to …
Let the cow speak what you want it to – ascii art with cowsay
2010/06/11
A picture is worth a thousand words. So here’s the thousand word posting. <a href="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/cowsay.jpg"><img …
email with templates (with variables) from the command line with sendmail or any other MTA.
2010/06/09
I was trying to get templates to work on evolution and found that although templates are there in evolution mail client, its not that efficient to use. What I thus wanted was to have something that …
Scripts to create logins from bash command – for creating multiple accounts
2010/06/09
Heres the script: […] cat «EOF > login.sh for i in `cat logins` ; do login=`echo ”$i”|awk -F”:” '{print $2}’`; …
bash completion not working on Fedora
2010/06/06
I had bash completion installed and after that I had made huge changes to my bashrc and also installed bashstyle. After this the bash-completion stopped working. I had to spend a lot of time to figure …
colors in bash – script to display all the possible colors.
2010/06/06
If you wanted to have colors in the bash output (including the colors in PS1-4), don’t you keep wondering how the color code would look on the terminal. So, I wrote this small script to show …